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"Henrique Paes"
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Right now Iβm currently working on an art project that is basically balancing out the design of the dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals of the Jurassic Park/world franchise with the current scientific research and discoveries and I was wondering if I could use your artwork as reference material I promise that Iβll credit you for it please
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Would you make a GDI for Gigantopithecus someday? I guess you could use an orangutan skeleton and adjust it to the skull size of Gigantopithecus? Also, theres, apparently a bigger specimen than the one blaze/bLAZZE92 have made a size comparison with in the 2017 paper which gave Gigantopithecus the 200-300 kg figure:Β Gigantopithecus blacki size comparison
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Unfortunately I won't; scaling living orangutans to Gigantopithecus's skull size (or estimated height) will probably yield more reliable results than a GDI, as long as it's not an obese individual. Interesting to know about the larger jaw, though.
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I don't really know; I draw when I feel like it, so I suppose I'll be making more eventually.
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Hey, because I want to remake my old M.conodon schematic into a digital one, could you help with a tutorial for begginers? Paleosir tried but I cannot understand that easy!
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I'm not sure how helpful this will be, but most people I know use GIMP 2 (v 2.8 onwards) to make schematics.
I screenshot each bone from the source, paste it into the GIMP file, and turn it into a different layer (in my case, I keep Windows>Dialog>Layers open, that way when a new image is pasted onto the file you can right click the ''floating selection'' box and turn it into a new layer). Bones that would be in front of another from the side view go to upper layers relative to the ones that they would obscure, and so on.
You pick how many pixels will equate to a meter (could be anywhere from 100px/meter to 1000px/meter or more depending on the size of the animal and resolution of the image) and resize each of the bones to match their real measurements relative to that.
For schematics in which you'll be using figures from papers or such without editing, that's basically it, the hard part is measuring each bone and putting them together. If you're drawing the bones yourself, then making a silhouette and then filling it with white is probably the best idea. For silhouettes AlternatePrehistory wrote this:
Make sure you are using a high resolution (eg. at least 2500 x 1000) so you can add detail to the silhouette. The more detail required, the higher the resolution should be
Make sure you are using this brush. That way the silhouette is less fuzzy and more solid. media.discordapp.net/attachmenβ¦
Make sure to set the spacing to the lowest value. That way the silhouette will be smooth (both of these can be found on the window on the right hand side) media.discordapp.net/attachmenβ¦(edited)
On the right hand window, make sure that smooth stroke is turned on and that the value for quality at 100 and the value for weight at 1000. This is so the brush "runs" smoother and the lines you draw don't jitter media.discordapp.net/attachmenβ¦(edited)
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Thank you very much! I strongly believe that it will be very helpful!
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What do you think of the idea of a Hainosaurus skeletal? Hell, what's your stance on Hainosaurus in general, regarding it's synonymity with Tylosaurus?
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I believe the most recent analyses have Hainosaurus as its own species but part of Tylosaurus, T.bernardi. Don't know enough about mosasaur phylogeny to comment on that, really.
As for making a skeletal, I don't know how much of the elements are figured, but if they're abundant then sure.
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Ok I don't like to be one of *those* guys but if it's okay I'm gonna list a few animals I think would be good ideas for skeletals? ^-^
Lisowicia
Sarcosuchus
Zhenyuanlong
Lystrosaurus
Sauroctonus
Cynognathus
Euchambersia
Gorgonops
Lycaenops
Junggarsuchus
Byronosaurus
Proterosuchus
Smilosuchus
Chalicotherium
Gastornis
Hyaenodon (okay, maybe more than a few xD)
take them or leave them, of course, I won't be demanding xD I'd like to know what you think tho!!
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While it looks like I won't be making any of those soon, Smilosuchus, Lycaenops, Proterosuchus, Gastornis and Hyaenodon already have good skeletals:
bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/f2013/β¦ (1 meter bar is actually 50cm)
images.slideplayer.com/33/8170β¦
www.researchgate.net/profile/Mβ¦
3c1703fe8d.site.internapcdn.neβ¦
www.copyrightexpired.com/earlyβ¦
though I don't know what species the HyaenodonΒ is.
Also a schematic of Byronosaurus:
primalrift.weebly.com/uploads/β¦
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That's a shame, but fair enough 
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I'll take a look at them. ^^
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Fuck it, actually, let's tack on Anteosaurus, Titanophoneus, Ophiacodon, Placerias and Ambulocetus xD the more ideas, the better!!
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Oooooo, how does a Prestosuchus skeletal sound as an idea?
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It was already in my list even, though got pushed back by Plioplatecarpus.
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A quick question--how big would you estimate Purussaurus to be?
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Max. ~10m and 5000 kg, agreeing with Moreno-Bernal (2007).
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You deserve a watch.
What do you know aboutΒ Lisowicia bojaniΒ if you mind me asking?
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The paper's skeletal has a too small scalebar (gives a 5m+ animal instead of their estimate of 4.5m) and the femur is too small in proportion to the other bones. Also of course it wouldn't weigh 9 tonnes; 2 or perhaps 3 would work. I don't have the measurements to say more, unfortunately.
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Love your size scale of the prehistoric, Iβm gonna watch your page
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I have an idea for a skeletal diagram you could do! I think it would be really cool if you made a skeletal diagram for Deinocheirus or maybe Qianzhousaurus. Just an idea, I thought.
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Qianzhousaurus seems interesting, I remember someone else asking if I could do an alioramin before. I'm on a break from tyrannosaurs for a bit, though.
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That ok. I'm glad though your still cranking out skeletal though! I just thought I might give you some ideas.
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Awesome works my friend 
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No problem at all!
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Current research shows megalodon should even be enlarged somewhat.
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With the discovery of the new giant Lilstock Icthyosaur that's roughly 26 meters long (the authors say it's somewhat speculative but very reasonably it's 20-26 meters they conclude), what do you think is a reasonable (low and high I suppose) weight estimate for it?
journals.plos.org/plosone/artiβ¦
What's even more nuts is that the paper concludes theAust ichthyosaur was "a much larger animal, perhaps more than 30% larger" making it potentially over 34 meters and thus quite possibly the largest animal ever.
Maybe Sea Amphi was actually real. Jeez.
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Well, it shouldn't come as a surprise that I don't think the animal's anywhere near as large as the whole ''rivaling blue whales in size'' thing. xD
It's certainly one of the largest marine reptiles ever, maybe the largest behind Huene's apocryphal giant centra, but I can't say much beyond thoughts that the Lilstock specimen is similar in size to Shastasaurus sikanniensis (which is probably oversized in my current chart). I'll have a better weight estimate eventually.
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Cool cool! Still pretty nutty all around.
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